News and Awards
Below please find an index of news and awards that recognize Microsoft researchers’ contribution to scientific research and commitment to advancing computer science.
Ground control to major policy makers: Unlocking user-centric AI’s potential for development – Part 1
Today, different satellite constellations capture an image of every place on Earth at least once a day. These satellite images can help local actors better understand and make decisions based on what is happening on…
The Diversity of Diversity & Inclusion
The importance of diversity and inclusion has been widely recognized by now and efforts toward this goal are commonplace in almost all settings. Diversity and inclusion, however, remains challenging, and even well-intentioned efforts do not…
Jennifer Chayes selected to 2020 class of AWM Fellows
Jennifer Chayes, Technical Fellow and Microsoft Researcher Emeritus, was awarded the Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics 2020 for pioneering the way for women in the mathematical sciences to have leading technical roles in…
Dumais receives SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
A common theme that runs through her work is the importance of understanding and improving information systems from an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective. She is a co-inventor of Latent Semantic Analysis, a well-known word embedding…
Technology breakthrough offers hope for people silenced by disability
Microsoft and other companies joined forces to help Rolls-Royce create new AI technology that will allow people with motor neurone disease (MND) to have a conversation in their own voice, even after they have lost…
Accelerating biodiversity surveys with Azure Machine Learning
Breaking the annotation logjam in wildlife surveys. Biodiversity is declining across the globe at a catastrophic rate. Conservation biologists are faced with the daunting — but urgent — task of surveying wildlife populations and making…
Interactive Consumption of Documents
FHL winners were announced. 10 winners from 1337 projects were declared, with Voice FHL team winning an award at E+D level. The hack comprised of people from Voice, Augmentation Loop, WAC, Calc and MSR. The…
Next-generation architectures bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with neural symbols
Our research group is working on the next-generation of AI architectures to realize the power of compositional symbolic computing in continuous, end-to-end deep neural networks.